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Word: camera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SELECTED FOR MILTON BERLE." Said Lorenzo: "I keep one lit for him when he comes off." As Berle waited glumly for his cue, he scowled at a monitor and frazzled the seven-in. Larranaga. "Shush, baby, shush," he said to no one in particular. On cue, he dashed on-camera, tossing his cigar into the air behind him. Chestnut winced: "I lost that one. I just wasn't there to get it, and he threw it on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Though he no longer called camera shots or helped shift scenery as in the ebullient old days, Berle managed to make clear who was the star of the show. He squawked that the air conditioning in NBC's big Brooklyn studio was giving him laryngitis, edgily dressed down a news photographer: "You were taking pictures all during that scene, baby. You know this is a dress rehearsal." Once he stopped rehearsals because he kept hearing noises on the set. "I can't go on," he complained. "There's too much talking." Said a technician: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...this picture. In this part of the real story, the center of interest naturally shifts from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what would interest the moviegoer does not seem to interest the moviemaker-or perhaps the size of the subject frightened him. In any case. Director Ferrer keeps his camera pointed firmly at Actor Ferrer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Farrell tried to get comfortable in a seat like a combination dentist's chair and toilet seat. He wore dark glasses, because bright light beat continuously upon him for the still camera (taking a picture every 75 seconds) and the television camera transmitting uninterruptedly by closed circuit to a nearby viewing room. Electrodes were taped to Farrell's arm and chest: he plugged in the leads so that doctors from the Air Force's School of Aviation Medicine could keep watch on his pulse and breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rehearsal for Space | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...just talks, about anything from sex to Sputniks. After 16 glib years on radio, he is now also talking on TV. "Don't bother to look at me," he assures fans on his 45-minute daily early-morning show. "I'll tell you if something is on-camera that you must see. Go ahead, take a shower, change the baby's diaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Word Jockey | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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